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US forces arrest 50 terrorists in Al-Ouja
(KUNA) -- The US army said Sunday its troops and Iraqi ones arrested 50 terrorists in small towns within parameters of Salahuddin governorate that embraces also Saddam's home town Al-Ouja.The US Army said in a statement released here today that the joint US-Iraqi forces detained through a wide-scale and three-day combing campaign that focused on terrorist cells in Abu Ajil, Yanout and Al-Ouja close to Tikrit. It added that 10 terrorists were killed after proving that they financed attacks against the coalition forces stationed in Abu Ajil. In another development a government statement said that the Iraqi army killed three terrorists and arrested two others at Bani Saad in the governorate of Diala, east of here. Posted by: Fred 2007-03-05 |
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